Dell Lifecycle Controller 1.5 Read me
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1. Dell Lifecycle Controller USC LCE Version 1 5 2 Readme What s New Backup server profile e Export server profile e Import server profile e View and export factory shipped inventory e Configuration and firmware upgrade support for Converged Network Adapters CNA cards 10GB paritionable NIC with FCoE and iSCSI offload Supported on the following CNA card o Broadcom M710HD Dual Port 10Gig 57712 NDC e Enhancement to the RAID configuration o Software RAID configuration o Virtual disk slicing e Driver packs support for new operating systems Prerequisites for using USC LCE e For Blade systems iDRAC version 3 2 e For Rack and Tower systems iDRAC version 1 7 Supported Dell Systems and Operating Systems For the list of Dell systems and operating systems that can be deployed on the target systems see the Lifecycle Controller Supported Dell Systems and Operating Systems section in the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix available at support dell com manuals On the Manuals page click Software gt Systems Management gt Dell OpenManage Releases Select the relevant OpenManage release version and click Dell System Software Support Matrix e Only VMware ESX 4 1 or later operating systems are supported on Intel Xeon processor E7 family Installation and Configuration NA Open Issues Limitations and Resolutions Issue 1 Description After you apply newer firmware on H200i storage controllers there is a delay2. d enable users as needed Note that at least one more user needs to be enabled in order to disable the account access in the USC Issue 18 Description In the iDRAC Configuration Wizard the DNS Domain Name may contain a maximum of 64 ASCII characters Issue 19 Description When attempting a Platform Rollback there may be a two minute delay before Rollback tasks are displayed on the screen Issue 20 Description When using Hardware Configuration Advanced Configuration if you click on any NIC or BIOS devices and then leave the page and come back you may experience delays of up to 18 seconds on all the pages Issue 21 Description In the iDRAC Configuration Wizard there is not a selection for auto attached on the Virtual Media Configuration page Issue 22 Description Intel NIC cards are not supported in the Platform Update option in USC Issue 23 Description During an UEFI based SLES 10 and SLES 11 installation ensure that no additional USB or block storage devices are connected to the system If there are one or more USB or block storage devices plugged into the system the auto loading of drivers from the embedded storage fails This fails because the current implementation of SLES installer reads only from one USB or block storage device Issue 24 Description If a Non Dell SD card is attached to the system the values shown for Health and Available Space options are not applicable Issue 25 Desc
3. ed but the storage device drivers are installed Do not attach floppy devices before using the USC to deploy a Windows 2003 Server operating system Issue 13 Description If you see this error message Unable to find a boot device on which to install the operating system Verify boot disk availability and if you have a USB key plugged in to the system after booting to USC remove the USB key before deploying the operating system Issue 14 Description If you are updating iDRAC firmware using a tool other than USC do not run USC during the firmware update because doing so results in unknown behavior After the firmware is successfully updated you can safely use USC Issue 15 Description If the iDRAC firmware update is interrupted for any reason you may need to wait for up to 30 minutes before you can attempt another firmware update Issue 16 Description When configuring the FTP server for your repository in the platform update you may get a message that indicates that a network connection exists with your FTP server however it may mean that the validation process needs some extra time depending on your network setting Click OK on the message box and try one more time to connect to the FTP server Issue 17 Description Account access can be disabled only if there is more than one user enabled on the iDRAC To enable users access the iDRAC Web based GUI Navigate to the Users section under the Network Security tab an
4. ice found error if you have a bad DVD CD in the optical drive This error does not mean that there are no optical devices on the system If you remove the bad media then this error is resolved Issue 7 Description For Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 8 operating system you may need to install kernel source before installing the drivers present in OEMDRV Issue 8 Description For RAID Configuration and Platform Updates PERC 6 1 Firmware or later is required Issue 9 Description To maintain compatibility with other iDRAC configuration tools it is recommended that only digits 0 9 alphanumeric a z A Z and hyphen characters be used when entering a Name or Password string When entering a Domain Name such as x123 com a period character is also permissible Issue 10 Description When attempting a Platform Update via an FTP server specifying a valid proxy server but selecting an invalid proxy type causes USC to halt for a long period possibly over 30 minutes before it returns to normal operation Issue 11 Description USC does not support the update or rollback options of PERC5 E Adapter for External Storage or SAS5iR Adapter for tape Issue 12 Description If a floppy drive is attached to the system when the USC is used to deploy a Windows 2003 Server perating system error pop up messages are displayed and many required device drivers such as NIC video and chipset drivers are not install
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6. of 2 to 3 minutes before reboot Issue 2 Description The drivers exposed by USC are present in a read only device labeled OEMDRV and the device is active for 18 hours In a Microsoft r Windows r and Linux environment the drivers are automatically installed and no further action is required In Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 8 only the drivers are not automatically installed and you have to install the drivers manually after the OS installation has been completed Issue 3 Description In Windows 2003 32 bit SBS and 64 bit in addition to the device labeled OEMDRV a floppy drive labeled FLOPPY that contains drivers is also exposed and remains active for 18 hours Issue 4 Description USC supplies necessary Windows 2003 Server drivers via a temporary internal USB device that may initially be assigned the drive letter C during Windows 2003 Server Setup Before proceeding see the USC USC LCE User s Guide or the Microsoft support article KB896536 for appropriate installation steps to ensure that your operating system is properly installed to drive letter C Issue 5 Description If the boot mode is set to UEFI in BIOS F2 setup and if you launch System Services F10 and Deploy OS the installation might fail or you may not be able to boot to the OS after the installation Always ensure boot mode is set to BIOS in F2 setup before launching USC and deploying the OS Issue 6 Description You may see a no optical dev
7. ription An Invalid Update Package error message is displayed when e The folder containing the DUP is not accessible e The DUP is not present on the USB mass storage device e Name of the DUP is incorrect Issue 26 Description For an attached Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet card when you change the settings from the Device Configuration menu from Forced SF to MF Allowed USC displays an error message An error occurred One or more settings may not be restored If you click OK the system reboots Issue 27 Description On R910 systems the Node Interleaving option on the Memory Settings page is grayed out when you access it after a reboot You must click Default on the main page of System BIOS Settings to enable the Node Interleaving option Issue 28 Description On an iDRAC version 1 3 installed managed node the Part Replacement Configuration and Add a work note to Lifecycle Log features in the USC LCE do not function though the features are enabled Issue 29 Description SAS controllers do not support virtual disk slicing Issue 30 Description Only Windows operating system can be deployed on systems with software RAID controller Issue 31 Description When you view hardware inventory incorrect hardware inventory information is displayed in a R210 Il system Issue 32 Description USC LCE does not support Network Daughter Card NDC firmware update or rollback from version
8. s 6 2 16 to 6 4 4 Issue 33 Description The release 1 5 2 addresses the change to Certificate Chain to ensure continued ability to make firmware updates Global Support For information on technical support visit dell com contactus For information on documentation support visit support dell com manuals On the Manuals page click Software gt Systems Management Click on the right side and select the product to access the documents Information in this document is subject to change without notice 2012 Dell Inc All rights reserved Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc is strictly forbidden Trademarks used in this text Dell the DELL logo Dell Precision OptiPlex Latitude PowerEdge PowerVault PowerConnect OpenManage EqualLogic KACE FlexAddress and Vostro are trademarks of Dell Inc Intel Pentium Xeon Core and Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries AMD is a registered trademark and AMD Opteron AMD Phenom and AMD Sempron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Microsoft Windows Windows Server MS DOS and Windows Vista are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the Un
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